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Dr. David Sinclair

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Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

And again, it goes back to the debate, should you supplement with growth hormone or testosterone?

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

All of these activities will give you immediate benefits.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

You'll bulk up more.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

You'll feel better immediately.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

But based on the research, it's at the expense of long-term health.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

So my view of longevity, the way I treat my body is I don't burn both candles.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

I have one end of the candle lit.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

I'm very careful.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

I don't blow on it.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

But I also do enough exercise that I'm building up my muscle, but I'm not huge.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

Anyone who's seen me knows that I'm not a professional bodybuilder.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

But I tried to actually, here's the key, and I haven't said this publicly that I can remember.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

I pulse things so that I get periods of fasting, and then I eat, then I take a supplement,

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

then I fast, then I exercise, and I'm taking the supplements and eating in the right timing to allow me to build up muscle sometimes.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

Because you can't just expect to take something constantly and do something constantly for it to work.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

And that's why it's taken me about 15 years to develop my protocol.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

And there's a lot of subtlety to it.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

What you want to do is to get the cells to be perceiving adversity.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

Because our modern life, we're sitting around, we're eating too much, we're not exercising.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging | Dr. David Sinclair

Our cells respond.